Little Egypt

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influence on burlesque

...the comedians who served their apprenticeship before the rowdy burlesque audiences. The addition of striptease dancing, the illogical conclusion of a process that had begun with the belly dancing of
Little Egypt at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893), established such stars as Ann Corio, Gypsy Rose Lee, Margie Hart, and Georgia Southern. Censorship and “clean-up”...